Association Between Survival and Time of Day for Rapid Response Team Calls in a National Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Decreased staffing at nighttime is associated with worse outcomes in hospitalized patients. Rapid response teams were developed to decrease preventable harm by providing additional critical care resources to patients with clinical deterioration. We sought to determine whether rapid response team call frequency suffers from decreased utilization at night and how this is associated with patient outcomes.

Design

Retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected registry database.

Setting

National registry database of inpatient rapid response team calls.

Patients

Index rapid response team calls occurring on the general wards in the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Medical Emergency Team database between 2005 and 2015 were analyzed.

SUBMITTER: Churpek MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5600679 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature